Happy Holidays from Decked Studios! We hope you get lots of great Magic the Gathering cards and goodies from loved ones (and maybe Santa) and find the time to brew some new MTG decks to play with friends and family. We'd also like to thank those of you who have purchased, used, and provided feedback for our deck building applications in 2012, it is much appeciated! We're looking forward to lots of great updates and improvements in 2013 that we think you'll really enjoy. First on the agenda is a Decked Builder update for Android. Thanks and happy deck brewing!

Version 3.0 of Decked Builder for the Mac has been released and adds some exciting new features to the application. Ever wonder how running two Thundermaw Hellkite instead of three impacts your likelihood of drawing one? Stop wondering and check with our new probability calculator!

We've made some changes to collections as well: you can now add and manage the foil cards, merge multiple open decks for the purpose of checking against your card collection, and an add/set mode for updating card quantities.

The interface has also been modernized and includes a number of additional enhancements to improve your deck building experience:

In the upcoming bug fix release of Decked Builder, we will be rearranging the buttons on the Test Deck screen:

1) Moving the draw button icon all the way to the right. Right handers rejoice! :)

2) We are separating the draw button and the restart button so that the restart button is never accidentally clicked.

Do let us know if there are any other issues. Also, if you know of a method to reliably reproduce the double graveyard issue, do write in to me at tanthorjen@deckedbuilder.com. We've been trying to resolve it, but with little luck.

We will be moving the deck toolbar to the top in the next upcoming bug fix release of Decked Builder due to requests from users from accidentally hitting the bottom tab. If you are against this, do let us know, otherwise it will be moving up!

If you have a CSV file or an old .coll file that you need converted, just head over there. On a side note, it seems that importing emailed collection files from Decked Builder HD is broken, and we will be submitting a patch to fix it soon.

In the next release of Decked Builder for the Mac, we are making use of your spare CPU cycles to display some simple draw statistics for every card in your deck. You can check it out in the screenshots below (bottom right hand corner).

We were also planning to add more comprehensive mana base stats (e.g. what's the probability of drawing two Blue mana by turn 4), but we will probably need more testing for that and will push it out to a later release.

We are also planning to add support for importing Magic Workstation mwDecks.

- Tan Thor Jen

Author

Tan Thor Jen is the author of Decked Builder, an iPhone/iPad app for building Magic: The Gathering decks.